Microfluidic array chip for highly parallel genomic and transcriptomic applications

• Main Author: Naveen Ramalingam
• Other Authors: Gong Haiqing, Thomas
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/49499
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is an enzyme-based technique to amplify a single or few copies of Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (DNA) in an exponential process, generating millions of copies of a known DNA sequence. The technique relies on thermal cycling; consisting of repeated cycles of heating and...